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16 Quotes for 'Beggary' in the Database.
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Beggars must be no choosers.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Scornful Lady (act V, sc. 3)
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Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report
sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a
company of boys about him."
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, mem. 4, subsect. 6)
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Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.
[Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, memb. 2)
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Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer
alight.
Author: Robert Greene
Source: Card of Fancie
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To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside;
Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: No Bashfulnesse in Begging
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
[Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: La Matrone d'Ephese
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Borrowing is not much better than begging.
[Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Nathan der Weise (II, 9)
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The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
[Ger., Der wahre Bettler ist
Doch einzig und allein der wahre Konig.]
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Nathan der Weise (II, 9)
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A beggar through the world am I,
From place to place I wander by.
Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,
For Christ's sweet sake and charity.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Beggar
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A pampered menial drove me from the door.
Author: Thomas Moss
Source: The Beggar
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I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,
Nor be half so happy as I.
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Let the back and side go bare.
Author: Old Song
Source: Old English Folk Song--Folk Songs from Somerset, by Cecil Sharpe
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He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
[Lat., Qui timide rogat,
Docet negare.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Hippolytus (II, 593)
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and
sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen,
Unless the adage must be verified,
That beggars mounted run their horse to death.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at I, iv)
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Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for my hand, as unattempted yet,
Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at II, i)
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I see, sir, you are liberal in offers.
You taught me first to beg, and now methinks
You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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